The 144-page softcover collects all 50 covers from the original 1982-1996 run of Love and Rockets.

"For this special edition, every effort was made to restore the work in such a way as to showcase the artwork itself, 'de-cluttering' the pieces of extraneous elements - logos, bar codes, issue numbers, prices, etc - that often obfuscated details, so that the artwork could be newly viewed as the potent images that they are," wrote editor Eric Reynolds in the book's introduction.

"Also, virtually every cover herein was newly recoloured to the original specifications to improve fidelity.

"The few exceptions to these objectives were the result of either the logos being embedded into the original design in such a way that removing them proved illogical, or no original files existed that would allow us to replace the information underneath the logos.

"In the few exceptions where the original colour is used, it's because a quality black-and-white file to recolour proved too difficult to find."

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